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The party in the cemetery. The amputation of the bronze foot. The reincarnation of Billy the Kid. The only book ever to make The New York Times best-seller list in both fiction AND non-fiction. The female gentlemen. The cave that waited 40 years. The murderous "squaw man."Where will you find these strange stories, and more? Only in "The Other State: New Mexico, USA." Anyone who lives in or travels to New Mexico understands that it is a place unlike anywhere else. Extremely unlike anywhere else.These true tales, brief and fast-moving, paint a unique portrait of a unique land. They are told by a multiple-award-winning writer, who found his home in New Mexico decades ago and has been telling its story ever since. If you too feel New Mexico's spell, then welcome to . . . "The Other State."Author and journalist Richard McCord is a natural storyteller. These sketches of his, lovingly stitched together, portray quirky, unpredictable New Mexicans, and especially their unconventional capital of Santa Fe. The characters who briefly walk through these pages each cast a ray of light on the human condition, and occasionally even evoke a chuckle. McCord's book is as absorbing as it is genuine." (MARC SIMMONS, historian)
About the author
Raised in Georgia and trained in New York, Richard McCord was for more than twenty-five years a journalist in New York and New Mexico. In 1974 he founded the weekly Santa Fe Reporter, which won a national reputation for excellence, and was for fourteen years its editor and co-publisher. His work has been honored by the New Mexico Press Association and the Albuquerque Press Club, and on the national level by the Scripps Howard Foundation, the National Press Club, the National Newspaper Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and with a runner-up citation for the Pulitzer Prize. His 1996 book "The Chain Gang: One Newspaper versus the Gannett Empire" placed second for the Mott Award for the best book about journalism that year.
